Spencer Williams Collection - 4 Movies
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DVD Cover Information Actor: Herb Jeffries, July Jones, Lucius Brooks, Spencer Williams, The Four Tones DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: English (Original Language) Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC Picture Format: 1.33:1 Running Time: 232 minutes DVD Release Date: 2004-01-01 Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) Studio: Echo Bridge Home Entertainment |
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Movie Reviews of Spencer Williams Collection - 4 Movies
Movie Review: Pioneer of African American cinema
Summary: 3 Stars
"Race movies," a genre unique to the United States between 1915 and 1947, were quite popular with black Southern audiences and in Northern industrial cities that had large African American communities. After the successful legal desegregation of the film industry in 1948, this type of movie vanished, literally. Today, only a fifth of the original 500 race films still exist.
ABOUT THIS DVD:
Spencer Williams is best remembered as TV's Andy Brown, of Amos 'n' Andy. He appeared on that CBS-TV adaptation of the popular radio sit-com from 1951 to '53. Williams was originally a sound technician in the early "talkie" era. After scripting and acting in the first "all-black" horror movie ("Son of Ingagi"), Williams was hired by a white distributor to write and direct his own films. This arrangement made Spencer Williams the only black of his generation to create movies for a white-owned company. His 1941 directorial debut, "The Blood of Jesus," was inducted into the Library of Congress National Film Registry in 1991. The rest of his output are average-quality 'B' movies.
SYNOPSES:
"The Blood of Jesus" - The spirit of a woman accidentally shot to death by her husband is accompanied by an angel to the Crossroads of Life. Before reaching this destination, she is tempted by the Devil.
"The Bronze Buckaroo" - A western where not guns but ventriloquism is used to save the day. Rancher Joe Jackson has been abducted by a gang and Bob Blake and friends set out to find him.
"Go Down Death" - A tavern owner who is feuding with a preacher tries to ruin the man's reputation with some salacious photographs. In struggling with his mother for the prints, the bar owner accidentally kills her. The preacher's eulogy for the mother (and a guilty conscience) leads to the schemer's suicide.
"Juke Joint" - Two down-and-out con men get involved in the lives of a small-town family they are boarding with. Spencer Williams' last movie.
Two more Spencer Williams films may be found on this small collection: Race Movies: Harlem Rides the Range/Moon Over Harlem/Big Timers/Dirty Gertie From Harlem USA.
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Parenthetical numbers preceding titles are 1 to 10 viewer poll ratings found at a film resource website.
(5.1) The Blood of Jesus (1941) - Cathryn Caviness/Spencer Williams/Rogenia Goldthwaite/James B. Jones
(5.5) The Bronze Buckaroo (1939) - Herb Jeffries/Lucius Brooks/Spencer Williams/Artie Young/The Four Tones
(5.8) Go Down Death (1944) - Spencer Williams/Myra D. Hemmings/Earl Sydnor/Edna May Harris
(5.2) Juke Joint (1947) - Spencer Williams/July Jones/Inez Newman/Melody Duncan/Katherine Moore